Hi,
  Does anyone know the times of South West Trains' London
Waterloo-Bristol Temple Meads service, to go through the whole NRES
website listings will take ages!
Also, is this service cheaper, compared with FGW's fares?

London Waterloo   12:20
Clapham Junction   12:27
Woking  12:45 12:46
Basingstoke  13:05 13:07
Andover  13:23 13:24
Salisbury  13:42 13:51
Warminster  14:10 14:11
Westbury  14:17 14:18
Trowbridge  14:24 14:24
Bradford-on-Avon  14:30 14:30
Bath Spa  14:44 14:45
Bristol Temple Meads  14:59

NRES is useless for full timings, use
http://www.travelinescotland.com/cgi-bin/jpclient.exe instead ;-)

On 8 Aug 2005 14:06:40 -0700, "Joe Patrick"
 wrote:


>Hi,
>  Does anyone know the times of South West Trains' London
>Waterloo-Bristol Temple Meads service, to go through the whole NRES
>website listings will take ages!


A quick visit to
<http://persoenlicherfahrplan.bahn.de/bin/pf/query-p2w.exe/en?> offers
the following:

Monday to Saturday

London Waterloo      dep   12:20   19:20
Bristol Temple Meads arr   14:59   22:04

Calling at: Clapham Junction (pick up only), Woking, Basingstoke,
Andover, Salisbury, Warminster, Westbury, Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon,
Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads.

The 1920 calls additionally at Overton, Whitchurch and Grateley.

Sunday

London Waterloo      dep   10:15   18:15
Bristol Temple Meads arr   13:05   21:07

Calling at: Clapham Junction (pick up only), Woking, Basingstoke,
Overton, Whitchurch, Andover, Grateley, Salisbury, Warminster, Westbury,
Trowbridge, Bradford-on-Avon, Bath Spa and Bristol Temple Meads.


Monday to Friday

Bristol Temple Meads dep   08:52   15:52
London Waterloo      arr   11:49   18:45

Calling at: Bath Spa, Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury,
Warminster, Salisbury, Andover, Basingstoke, Woking, Clapham Junction
and London Waterloo.

Saturday

Bristol Temple Meads dep   08:52   15:52
London Waterloo      arr   11:49   18:49

Calling at: Bath Spa, Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury,
Warminster, Salisbury, Andover, Basingstoke, Woking, Clapham Junction
and London Waterloo.

Sunday

Bristol Temple Meads dep   14:00
London Waterloo      arr   16:58

Calling at: Bath Spa, Bradford-on-Avon, Trowbridge, Westbury,
Warminster, Salisbury, Andover, Basingstoke, Woking, Clapham Junction
and London Waterloo.


>Also, is this service cheaper, compared with FGW's fares?


QJump gives the following fares for London to Bristol on the SWT
services (or changing at Salisbury to Wessex):

Apex Return (rte AP Salisbury): 16.00
Super Advance Return (rte AP Salisbury): 19.00
Cheap Day Return (rte Warmster/Salsbry): 23.90
Supersaver Return (rte Warmster/Salsbry): 29.00
1st Apex Return (rte AP Salisbury): 35.00
Saver Return (rte Warmster/Salsbry): 39.50
First Open Return (rte Warmster/Salsbry): 95.60

You'll notice that there's no Standard Open Return for the route, so I
would surmise that the Saver would be valid on all trains.

The fGW range comprises:

Apex Return (rte Great Westn Only): 20.00
Apex Return (rte AP Slough): 20.50
Super Advance Return (rte Great Westn Only): 30.00
Super Advance Return (rte AP Slough): 31.00
Supersaver Return (rte Any Permitted): 36.00
Saver Return (rte Any Permitted): 45.00
1st Apex Return (rte AP Slough): 45.10
Standard Open Return (rte Any Permitted): 103.00
Saver First Return (rte Any Permitted): 109.00
First Open Return (rte Any Permitted): 171.00

HTH,

Barry

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"Joe Patrick"  wrote in message 
news:1123535200.910819.9510@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,
>  Does anyone know the times of South West Trains' London
> Waterloo-Bristol Temple Meads service, to go through the whole NRES
> website listings will take ages!
> Also, is this service cheaper, compared with FGW's fares?
>


http://www.southwesttrains.co.uk/SWTrains/pdfs/Cc66MJune05.pdf

> You'll notice that there's no Standard Open Return for the route, so I
> would surmise that the Saver would be valid on all trains.


What would happen with a Priv then, I assume there is a Standard Day
Single?


> The fGW range comprises:
> Standard Open Return (rte Any Permitted): £103.00


I've managed to chop that fare because I'll be coming from Aylesbury
and Changing at Didcot.
Aylesbury - Bristol Temple Meads Standard Open Rtn (I *assume* via
London, Didcot, Reading or Bham is acceptable) is £122.
BUT
Aylesbury - Didcot Parkway Standard Day Single is £18.10 (same price
as London Padd - Didcot Parkway) and Didcot Parkway - Bristol Temple M
Standard Day Single is £16.90. Add it up, and multiply it by two to
get a return fare, which is £70, saving £52 off the peak hour fare!
So with my Priv (adult rates thank you!) Aylesbury - Didcot = £4.55
and Didcot - Bristol Temple M = £4.25. £8.80 x 2 is £17.60 vs
£30.50 for the Open Rtn.
Bargain! Saving myself £12.90!
And there's no chance of messing that up because I have to change at
Didcot, but if you're coming from London remember to get on a service
that stops at Didcot!

There's a superadvance single at £9.50. The standard single is a few
pence cheaper than a cheap day return IIRC

The superadvance tickets seem to have good availablility and only have
to be booked by 6pm the day before.

So yes it's cheaper - more importantly the cheap fares are more readily
available

On 9 Aug 2005 03:55:32 -0700, "Joe Patrick"
 wrote:


>> You'll notice that there's no Standard Open Return for the route, so I
>> would surmise that the Saver would be valid on all trains.
>
>What would happen with a Priv then, I assume there is a Standard Day
>Single?


Yup. Undiscounted SDS is 23.20 (rte Warmster/Salsbry), so presumably
you'd need to buy two singles as there's no SDR or SOS for the route in
question, which means you're stuffed if you want to do an overnight BoJ
in either direction...Methinks a query to SWT's Pricing Manager may be
in order.

Cheers,

Barry

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> Yup. Undiscounted SDS is £23.20 (rte Warmster/Salsbry), so presumably
> you'd need to buy two singles as there's no SDR or SOS for the route in
> question, which means you're stuffed if you want to do an overnight BoJ
> in either direction...Methinks a query to SWT's Pricing Manager may be
> in order.


Thanks very much to those who replied, but, seeing now long it takes,
I'd rather pay £3-ish extra for the saving in time of well over 1 Hr.

Joe Patrick wrote:

>>Yup. Undiscounted SDS is 23.20 (rte Warmster/Salsbry), so presumably
>>you'd need to buy two singles as there's no SDR or SOS for the route in
>>question, which means you're stuffed if you want to do an overnight BoJ
>>in either direction...Methinks a query to SWT's Pricing Manager may be
>>in order.
> 
> 
> Thanks very much to those who replied, but, seeing now long it takes,
> I'd rather pay 3-ish extra for the saving in time of well over 1 Hr.
> 

Indeed. This was 2 hours ten minutes Bath to Waterloo when first 
introduced ...